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Transformation and Distortion

SQUASH, STRETCH, BULGE, warp, distort, rotate, skew, deform - what do all these transformations have in common? Hint: it’s not how you felt after that second baked bean burrito you know you didn’t need to eat. Answer: it’s the Free Transform tool, the single most efficient and versatile tool Flash offers, and it will prove to be one of the most used tools in your daily animation workflow.

With the release of Adobe Flash CS4 comes two new powerful tools: 3D Rotation and 3D Translation. We can now transform and animate objects in a true 3D space natively in Flash! Transforming and distorting objects is now more powerful than ever!